Issue 2 charted at number 151 with no resolicitations. That's crazy for a 2nd issue.
This title might be out of the top 200 by issue 4.
I know it's divisive [I have seen plenty of fans and review sites that are enjoying it and a lot panning it] but didn't think it was this bad.
Long standing loyal fans tend to support their favourites regardless and most comic readers will give a title a few issues before dropping. I expected this run to at least have the support of long time loyal fans.
With the book continuing (with the same writer, albeit third artist) it doesn't seem that the book is doing terribly enough for DC to cancel it or change the writer. DC has cancelled lots of books by issue six that were not doing well but we have solicitations for issue 8. At this point I would much rather they cancel the book and start over with a different creative team.
DC cancels gay Robin might be bad enough headline to publish few more badly selling issues.
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The lack of variant covers is not a good sign.
However, since we are just looking at ranking and not actual numbers we are only guessing how bad it is. Nightwing as Ric was selling badly and still manage to stick around for a while until it was revamped, Red Hod was also a low seller and it took a while for it to be cancelled. Batgirls and I Am Batman have been also low and both books have made it to a least 17 issues. Azrael comes out in the first week of the month and by issue 2 it was outside the top 100 rankings and DC didn't reduce its number of issues.
I think because Batman and Detective Comics are really strong sellers, Bat-family spinoff books are given a little more room to fail.
Last edited by ZuLuLu; 01-21-2023 at 01:04 PM.
Well, we don't know how Tim's Robin will sell at trade as yet. But that goes to an earlier point I made books aimed at young females, POC, and LGBT audiences tend to do better in digital and trade sales so their overall run last a little longer even when their monthly sales seem bad.